Saturday, August 23, 2025

Silence of the Laminates #1


It's a holiday weekend here in the UK, so why not settle the kids down in front of a screen and get back to building maritime drones? I've a fourth prototype on the go in the shape of a 'flying test-bed' of the sort they built before Harriers took shape.

It has sat in the corner of the workshop for weeks, even though Patrick Swayze said it shouldn't have. Originally an experiment to see if we could go down the laminate route, it proved that so long as a cruciform construction like this was used, the keel would be every bit as robust as the cantilevered types that preceded it.

I've put a pencil-sharpener for scale ~ bear in mind it's used on a two-metre pencil.